It's a tough one - Ive lost followers by live tweeting at conferences and events because its not relevant to a proportion of the following and they just get annoyed. On the other hand some great stats that get the retweets can score your new ones.

You can only hope to gain more than you lose but good tip from Stevie with a courtesy tweet up front. Great post with loads in interesting things to look at.

I see no harm in guest blogging as long as there's a reason and you can add something to the argument. Blogging for the sake of a link helps noone. If you have something useful to add then say so and it will more than likely get picked up and shared and that's how it should be.
I'm getting bored of reading the same blogs with the same information written differently. SEO is about optimising you site and subject matter to increase rankings within that field, yes there are tactics that can be employed but good quality unique content that's relevant to your audience will generate interest and traffic, this improving rankings.
I totally agree with a post above that guest blogging is a great way to build relationships. Using it for this will also help you much more in the long run. September 11, 2012

I think google are clever enough to decipher themselves what is and isn't spammy (obviously not all the time but for the most) It's not as simple as find EMD and penalise. In typical google fashion there will 200 factors used to work out the end result.

I for one have seen a massive improvement in search results recently and I don't have.to scan past dodgy sites to find a result I want. The fact that there's less EMD's showing highlights what many were used for and how they got there.

Great post as usual!! Very insightful to see tyhose stats but Id love to see some updates as well. Im see the benefit of PPC but theres no long term benefit unless you want to keep spending.

Also - can anyone point me in the direction of a post/acticle/own thoughts on using PPC on your own brand name? I need some points to back up what I think but have only found basic articles that pretty much sit on the fence as to whether its worth it so need something that argues strongly one way or the other.

Everyones so worried about these changes and that they will hurt the industry. The way I see it - if youve been following Google best practicies (ie White and not black hat) you should be ok.

These elements highlighted by Rand are things we should not be doing anyway. No matter what changes, small or large that google make they want to index content that looks and feels like its been written by and written for humans - these changes will help that.

We shouldn't be keyword stuffing, creating multiple, similar pages on essentially the same topic or being lazy about link building just to rank higher - this is not natural and doesnt read that way.

Google is changing, not to punish the good but the bad in the industry.....and the good who get caught up should by mistake should have nothing to worry about as they should be good enough to recover.